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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Don't Kill The Bees!

TAMPA — Steinbrenner Field was buzzing Tuesday, but it had nothing to do with the Yankees and Red Sox.

The rivals were delayed for seven minutes in the bottom of the third inning when a swarm of bees wreaked havoc in left field.

Boston left fielder Mike Carp pointed the bees out to umpires, who
stopped the game while stadium employees treated the area with insect
spray.

“I heard them before I saw them,” Carp said. “I turned around and knew I had to get out of there.”

“I didn’t know what was going on,” said Boston pitcher Felix Doubront, “but I knew I didn’t want to be out there.”

Both teams stood at the top of their dugouts watching the scene, though
Mark Teixeira decided to have some fun and fetched two bottles of honey
from the clubhouse and brought them onto the field.

“I’m a big peanut butter-and-honey guy, so I always know where the
honey is,” Teixeira said. “What I thought was if you could just do a
line of honey out to the parking lot the bees would maybe follow it and
leave us alone.”

Fans gave the stadium employees a big ovation after the situation was resolved.

“That was a first for me,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “Never saw a game delayed by bees.”

I'm going to be blunt here because this story PISSES me off:

The players on both teams are fucking morons.

The fans in the stands who gave the stadium employees a standing ovation for killing the bees are fucking morons.

Do these idiots realize that destroying our honeybees is damaging our
food chain? I just can't believe they were allowed to do this. All they
had to do was wait for the queen to settle and they would have swarmed
around her. As a beekeeper I am appalled at them destroying the bees.
Anyone involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.

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Don't spray insecticides haphazardly! Geez. What are they? A bunch of New Yorkers in Florida? ;)

There are many beekeepers who are willing to rescue swarming honeybees!

Shame on them for using insecticides. I hope they inhaled enough themselves to feel sick. Swarming bees have their bellies full of honey and are almost incapable of stinging. You can scoop them up with unprotected hands once they land somewhere and cluster. They are just trying to find a new home. The Yankees should have done the right thing and called for a beekeeper, and reap in good publicity for it. Using poison is just bad. Shame on them for even having this stuff on hand. I hope they will lose every game for the next decade for killing innocent insects. Yeah I'm putting a beekeeper curse on them.

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I agree with Elizabeth, it should be illegal to spray bees at this
point. It's a major issue. Here's a way to be part of the solution
instead of the
problem: http://bidg­rouponeconsulting.wo­rdpress.com/2014/03/­18/using-the-power-o­f-the-internet-to-he­lp-protect-endangere­d-bees/

One more time - everybody involved at the game who contributed to the deaths of the bees are fucking morons.

There are smart ways to handle a swarm and then there's the way the Yankees handled it.

The older I get, the more I can't figure out how human beings have managed to last this long on the planet given the stupid things we do to the ecosystem.

Given how much damage we've done to the ecosystem lately, we'll see how much longer human hegemony goes on.

Perdido for president. I love you. Your students are very fortunate. I am certain that you bring your love of learning and thirst for knowledge and information straight into their lives and hearts.We need bees. So many fucking morons around these days.

...and how r we tending to our children...student suicides in NYC way up....does Common Core, über testing, and lack of the arts and poetry, and all the other creative aspects of schooling lacking in recent years killing our kids....?